Boys and men experience more social isolation than girls and women, study finds

GorchestopherH · 2022-09-21T20:34:59+00:00

Analyses revealed that men are more isolated than women in the younger Add health sample, while women are more isolated than men in the older HRS sample. At all ages, men reported higher levels of social isolation compared to women. When taking into account marital and partnership history, the researchers found that men and women showed similar patterns of increasing isolation between ages 18-42, regardless of their partnership status.

Pretty obvious results for anyone here.

The cause maybe up for debate, but I think it has a lot to do with the requirements placed on men.

First imperative is to work, everything else is secondary.

Men pay a higher social price to take time away from their "work" to maintain relationships.

TheWorldUnderHell · 2022-09-21T23:58:52+00:00

As an introverted guy, this is basically my life right now. Couldn’t get into the grad program I wanted (counseling, ironically to address men’s health), so now I’m working to pay off my loans for the next year to try the program again. Not really able to make friends at work and I don’t feel like I have enough time in the day to do the things I want in solitude. Plus, it costs money to go out and do basically anything with other people.

CoronaBlanket · 2022-09-22T06:47:24+00:00

On another platform I saw a woman actually claiming this harms women because lonely husbands with no male friends "burden" their wives with friendship. You can't make this stuff up.

EddgeLord666 · 2022-09-22T00:46:27+00:00

Surprising absolutely no one.

griii2 · 2022-09-22T12:09:45+00:00

What I find most interesting is this has incredible 65k upvotes on r/science. And the comments are overwhelmingly supportive as well.

Progress?

(https://np.reddit.com/r/science/comments/xk2ish/boys\_and\_men\_experience\_more\_social\_isolation/)

AnFGhoster · 2022-09-22T10:56:51+00:00

Ironically I just saw this over on r.science. I'm surprised they'd leave it up.

This shouldn't come as surprise to any one even casually aware of men's issues though.

McGauth925 · 2022-09-23T21:48:55+00:00

I have to think that this will be treated as an isolated problem for males, and basically, one that we cause for ourselves. Not many people, and next-to-no feminists, will include this in a larger pattern that shows us how much better females are treated in almost every way, and at every stage of their lives.

Blauwpetje · 2022-09-22T14:26:13+00:00

I can tell why in general (Dutch) people have a lot less friends than some decades ago. Individualism has gone rampant. The collapse of several social structures - church, neighbourhood, even school and workplace in a way - is obvious. But also: when people did a course when I was younger, sang in a choir, did volunteer work, visited a concert or other event, they often had more or less the aim to make new friends. Nowadays they just meet the people when they’re doing their thing together but it doesn’t occur to them to meet them elsewhere, let alone visit them at home. (When one did a course, etc., normally every member got a paper with everybody’s name, address and phone number. That’s now breaking privacy rules I’m afraid.) A new negative step is the demise of the drink afterwards. It used to be an important part of every getting together; the last few years virtually everybody has a quick drink and disappears, or even without that quick drink. Places to meet people who might become friends have to be invented and re-invented all the time. Why men are most affected? Maybe because when women are looking for new friends, they look mainly for other women, while men look for both men and women. Maybe women are quicker in calling somebody her ‘friend’, while men would take longer, still talking about an ‘acquaintance’. And maybe men had a disadvantage from the beginning, which hits harder now that times get tougher in general.

hotpotato138 · 2022-10-01T11:18:51+00:00

I have isolated myself by choice from family and friends. Some of them are toxic.

Title	Boys and men experience more social isolation than girls and women, study finds
Author	GorchestopherH
Upvotes	113
Comments	27
Date	September 21, 2022 8:09 PM UTC (3 years ago)
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